Since I got my first ever smartphone, Samsung Galaxy Y (S5360), (and Android too) I was having some problems with calibrating phone’s compass. The compass applications I found in the Android Market instructs users to do a figure-8 wave. I did all kinds of figure-8 wave and well, nothing.
Until I found this video showing the one figure-8 method I haven’t tried - wrist movement. It is as simple as that, all I can do is laugh at myself for doing all the silly figure-8 movements I can think of.
Watch the video:
Best Compass Calibration Method (iPhone/G1/etc.)
Using this method, you can calibrate electronic compass in a few seconds easily.
The work shown above is Copyrighted to ecompass3.
It works for all other phones with compass features like iPhone and Symbian based phones.